Kagan backed Clinton in Whitewater dispute

Published June 12, 2010 at 12:11 a.m.
Memos show the Supreme Court nominee argued in 1995 for attorney-client privilege between the president and his lawyers...

...As a young lawyer in the Clinton White House, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan argued in favor of confidentiality for President Clinton in the early stages of the Whitewater investigation and the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit, maintaining that a legal shield protects the privacy of meetings between the president and his lawyers.

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